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A Gold Rush Leads To War - 1,304 words
A Gold Rush Leads to War A Gold Rush Leads to War
The American Civil War (1861-1865) and the
Reconstruction period that followed were the
bloodiest chapters of American history to date.
Brother fought brother as the population was split
along sectional lines. The issue of slavery
divided the nation's people and the political
parties that represented them in Washington. The
tension which snapped the uneasy truce between
north and south began building over slavery and
statehood debates in California. In 1848, settlers
discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, starting a mass
migration. By 1849, California had enough citizens
to apply for statehood. However, the debate over
whether the large western st ...
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Abe Lincoln - 1,112 words
... him from the chores Lincoln attended ABC
school.10 This is where Lincoln learned to become
a hard worker. Lincolns working days started in
1831. Abe and his brother were hired to build a
boat and float it down the Mississippi with a load
of cargo on it. The boat was headed towards New
Orleans and this is where Lincoln saw his first,
but not last, slave auction. Lincoln is quoted in
saying, if I ever got a chance to hit that thing,
I would hit it hard. 11 Lincoln was not in favor
of slavery but he was certainly to abolitionist.
Lincolns career in politics began in the spring of
1832, when Lincoln was 23, he ran for a seat on
the Illinois House of Representatives. In his
campaign, Lincoln ...
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Adventures Of Huck Finn - 1,238 words
Adventures Of Huck Finn Ever since it was written,
Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn has been a novel that
many people have found disturbing. Although some
argue that the novel is extremely racist, careful
reading will prove just the opposite. In recent
years especially, there has been an increasing
debate over what some will call the racist ideas
in the novel. In some cases the novel has even
been banned by public school systems and censored
by public libraries. The basis for the debate is
how Jim, a black slave and one of the main
characters, is depicted. However, if one was to
look at the underlying themes in the novel, they
would realize that it is not racist and could even
be considered an a ...
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Adventures Of Huck Finn And History - 1,350 words
Adventures Of Huck Finn And History The world in
which we live in now is much less oppressive than
say the world lived in the middle of the 1800s. Up
until the Civil War, the South depended on their
peculiar institution of slavery, in order to be
productive a successful. Most people believed
slavery was not wrong, but those who thought
otherwise seldom tried to alter it. In general if
surrounded by oppressive environment, one does not
usually try to make a difference in that world.
This is because people are afraid to defend what
is right against a whole mass of people who
believe otherwise. Huck Finn in The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, Billy Budd in Billy Budd, and
Frederick Douglass in ...
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American Identity - 1,828 words
American Identity The American Identity It can
strongly be argued, as it has for many years,
whether or not an American identity ever occurred
between 1776 and 1861. The answer to this question
really depends on your definition of what an
identity consists of. An identity is the sameness
in all that constitutes the objective reality of a
thing; oneness. The thirteen colonies tried hard
to find a sense of themselves as a nation even
before they had a nation. Nationality became an
American invention (notes). To find an identity
the thirteen colonies created a flag, symbols of
nationality (bald eagle, pluribus Unum), and they
established national heroes (George Washington).
Next they began to s ...
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Bible About Muhammad - 3,310 words
Bible About Muhammad "Say: 'Do you see whether
this message be from Allah (God Almighty), and yet
you reject it, and a witness from among the
Children of Israel bore witness of one like him.'
" (the Holy Quran 46:10) Mr. Chairman, Ladies and
Gentlemen, The subject of this evening's talk -
"What the Bible says about Muhammad" will no doubt
come as a surprise to many of you because the
speaker is a Muslim. How does it come about that a
Muslim happens to be expounding prophecies from
the Jewish and Christian Scriptures? As a young
man, about 30 years ago, I attended a series of
religious lectures by a Christian theologian, a
certain Rev. Hiten, at the "Theater Royal", Durban
in South Africa. Po ...
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Bolsheviks In 1920 - 1,777 words
... rences between themselves and the Russians (p.
80). In 1918, near the end of World War I, forces
from the United States, France, and Britain
gathered in Russia to "expand the eastern front"
against the Germans (p. 84). The purpose of these
interventions at first was to use Russian soil to
win World War I, not to support either side of an
ideological civil war that had just begun and was
occurring simultaneously (p. 84). Before Russia
made several questionable decisions in World War
I, the ideology behind the Bolshevik regime was
not challenged heavily by the west (Harris). Ulam
states, "Until November 1918, the Allied
intervention in Russia had nothing ideological
about it. It was design ...
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Bolsheviks In Wwi - 1,759 words
Bolsheviks In Wwi There were several major sources
of conflict between the Bolsheviks and the western
states in Europe from 1917 to 1921. Conflicting
ideologies that each attacked the core of each
other's respective society led to the notion that
Capitalism and Communism could not coexist. The
attempts of both actors to hold control of their
own political system and to expand their political
ideas internationally led to major conflicts
between them. Also, the lack of respect for the
upstart of the Bolshevik government by the west
led to misperceptions concerning the actions of
the Soviets. Russia's unsatisfactory involvement
World War I and its abrupt departure from the war,
which affected t ...
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Bolsheviks In Wwi - 1,714 words
... states of the west began to take notice of the
ideological differences between themselves and the
Russians . In 1918, near the end of WWI, forces
from the United States, France, and Britain
gathered in Russia to "expand the eastern front"
against the Germans . The purpose of these
interventions at first was to use Russian soil to
win WWI, not to support either side of the
ideological civil war that had just begun and was
occurring simultaneously . Before Russia made
several questionably decisions in WWI, the
ideology behind the Bolshevik regime was not
challenged heavily by the west. Ulam states,
"Until November 1918, the Allied intervention in
Russia had nothing ideological about it. It ...
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Civil War - 3,706 words
... iority. They also feared competition from
freed slaves for their trades. The economic
viability of slavery is a debatable issue. Slavery
as an efficient labor system was not feasible, as
the slaves did not have enough compulsion to do
more than would be extracted from them by force.
Slavery made the souths economic system less
flexible and progressive. The success of
plantation agriculture hindered the growth of a
more diversified economy. The reluctance of white
men to work as a free labor force due to the
social stigma attached to it meant that the
economy never progressed beyond the rural
character to industrialization uniformly. Huge
profits were made by businessmen at the expense of ...
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Civil War In Us - 402 words
Civil War In US The annexation of Texas to the
United States and the gain of new territory by the
Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo aggravated the
hostility between the North and South. The
controversial issue of slavery in the new
territories arose again along with many other
political differences that needed to be resolved.
In the midst of fear that the southern states
might withdraw from the Union altogether, Senator
Henry Clay of Kentucky created a series of five
legislative enactments. These enactments, known as
the Compromise of 1850, answer the question of
whether slavery was to be sanctioned or prohibited
in the newly acquired regions. The first two
measures included the admission of Cali ...
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Civil War Inevitability - 1,220 words
Civil War Inevitability THE INEVITABILITY OF THE
BREAKUP OF THE UNION By Sam Tooker The breakup of
the Union was inevitable. The south was always
going to secede; it was just a question of when.
The southern and northern states varied on many
issues. There were deep economic, social, and
political differences between the north and the
south. All of this was a different interpretation
of the United States Constitution on both sides.
In the end, all of these disagreements led to the
Civil War. There were reasons other than slavery
for the souths secession.(5) The south relied
heavily on agriculture, as opposed to the north
which was highly populated by factories. The south
grew cotton, which w ...
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Constitution - 1,417 words
Constitution When the Constitution of the United
States was first created in 1787, its purpose was
to unify our country. However, by 1850, the United
States had become 'source of sectional discord and
tension and ultimately contributed to the failure
of the union it had created.' What happened during
the 63 years after it was first established to
'contribute to the failure of the union it had
created?' One must look at what the Constitution
promoted to make the country unified and what it
did to make it disunified. Compromises such as
3/5, the Missouri, and the tariff of 1850 all
helped to unify and shape our country. However,
compromises such as the Fugitive Slave Law,
Popular Sovereignty, ...
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Constitution - 1,401 words
... to resist the reenslaving a man on the coast
of America.' In the flyer created by an
abolitionist, it pointed out that man was able to
capture free or runaway slaves' to be on the
lookout. This flyer had no right to allow whites
to kidnap a man due to the color of his skin, free
or runaway. Transcendentalists such as Emerson and
Thoreau, both supported a variety of reforms,
especially the antislavery movement. Emerson's
essays argued for self-reliance, independent
thinking and the primacy of spiritual, matters
over material ones. Thoreau used observations of
nature to discover essential truths about life and
the universe. The Fugitive Slave Law is definitely
a reason why the Constitutio ...
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Dredd Scott - 1,212 words
Dredd Scott Dredd Scott America in 1857 was a
nation on the brink. Relationship between the
North and South had been strained for decades and
was only getting worse. All tension had to do with
the issues of slavery. In 1848 the U.S. had
acquired new lands in the Mexican cession, and the
debate was on. The question was whether or not the
South should be allowed to spread slavery into the
new states. This debate turned violent many times.
The South threatened to secede from the Union if a
candidate from the Republican party, who was
antislavery, won. Amidst all of the tension would
emerge a slave named Dredd Scott. Dredd Scott was
a slave to Dr. John Emerson in St.Louis, Missouri
a slave state ...
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Easter Rising Of 1916 - 398 words
Easter Rising Of 1916 The events of Easter Monday,
the 24th of April, 1916 triggered a bloody
confrontation that would have important
ramifications both for the Irish people and the
British Empire. What would later become known as
the Easter Rising was an attempt to end British
rule in Ireland. At the onset of the First World
War in 1914 the Irish Home Rule Bill was
suspended, returning the Irish people to direct
rule by the British government. This was viewed as
a slap in the face by many in Ireland. It became
the primary source of tension between the Royal
Irish Constabulary, an armed police force
appointed by the British Crown, and opposing rebel
groups. The Royal Irish Constabulary consi ...
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How The English Won The Boer War In South Africa - 1,798 words
How The English Won The Boer War In South Africa
Fleming 01James M. Fleming22 March, 2001How Great
Britain won the Boer War in South Africa in 1902
On October 11, 1899, the forces of the Boer
republics, Orange Free State and South African
Republic, responded to Great Britain's dismissal
of an ultimatum against the placement and
reinforcing of British troops in South Africa by
laying siege to cities in northern Cape Colony
occupied by the then outnumbered British troops.
The British were able to gain superiority and
eventually win the Boer War by brute force, vastly
superior numbers and the cessation of rights for
those deemed the enemy and its collaborators. It
would take three years and dra ...
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How The English Won The Boer War In South Africa - 1,799 words
... hundred twenty billion pounds. In February of
1900, the British army was able to gain forward
momentum with a series of victories that mark the
second phase of the war, the phase of British
domination. In short order they were able to
relieve the city of Kimberley and seven days later
Kitchener was able to cut off Cronje and the main
body of the retreating Boer army at Paardeberg and
force the surrender of over four thousand troops
with Cronje being sent to Saint Helena island in
the south Atlantic as a prisoner of war. British
troops steadily pressed on and by the middle of
March had captured Bloemfontein, the capital of
the Orange Free State and on the 28th of May the
Free State was an ...
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Huck Finn Novel Analysis - 998 words
Huck Finn Novel Analysis I. Setting The story of
Huck Finn begins in his hometown of Hannibal,
Missouri. Then the setting changes to Jackson
Island because Huck decides to run away and live
there. After that the setting changes to the
Mississippi River and various towns alongside,
when Jim and Huck decide they are heading to a
state where Jim will be free. The setting
immediately reflects the tone of the book because
the book is written in a southern dialect and the
story is set in the south. The setting is crucial
to the actions in the book. If Huck lived in a
state where slaves were free, then there would
have been no need for Huck and Jim to travel the
Mississippi looking for a state wher ...
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Ira : Is Force Justified - 1,546 words
IRA : Is Force Justified? The Irish Republican
Army is not justified in using force to achieve
its aims because the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
represents the minority of the population in
Northern Ireland. The IRA also is not justified in
using force because using force does not work and
it turns their supporters against them. The IRAs
goals are political and political rights should be
achieved through political methods, not by force.
In cases where the majority of the population is
not fairly represented in the government and
peaceful protests and demonstrations have not been
successful, then resorting to armed resistance is
justified. For example, in the case of the
American Revolution, t ...
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